Another Dec 7 upon us. I was going to wait to post these ...

[Mark Allen M]

... but seeing it is still November it seems appropriate to post them now ... and if you can wait until Dec 7 you'll really see some amazing stuff. (I'll wait to post the really neat photos of the P-40's and B-17's of which many of you have been searching for) The last five photos are not in Hawaii as far as I can tell.
Source SDASM archives


13th Quartermaster Co Truck-Hickam Field November 1941


17th Air Base Squadron Wheeler Field November 1941


39th Quartermaster Company Hickam Field November 1941

[BuzzBy]

Wow, more great photos!
Awesome.

I believe this is the story on the Y1B-17:

7 December 1936 - First Y1B-17, 36-149, c/n 1973, first flown 2 December, makes rough landing at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, on third flight, when Army pilot Stanley Umstead touches down with locked brakes, airframe ends up on nose after short skid. Repaired, Flying Fortress departs for Wright Field on 11 January 1937.[4]
From Wikipedia, with credit to:
Bowers, Peter M., "The Forgotten Fortresses", Wings, Granada Hills, California, August 1974, Volume 4, Number 4, pp.22-23.

Mark, thank you so much for taking the time to share these.
John

[Mark Allen M]

No thank you John, my part is easy as I just post away. No real effort. Thx for the info. Always appreciated as it's nice to add real data and stories to these old photos. As I've said many times, It's fun to sit back and learn new stuff.

Thanks again

Mark

[lmritger]

I saved all those Wheeler Field pics as well Mark- if you go to the seller's page and select "Completed listings", you will find a whole bunch more goodies in there. Wound up with somewhere over 50 pics... and I am immensely grateful to the seller for scanning them so large!

Lynn

[Chris Brame]

Mark, these are terrific! Never thought I'd see any shots of those A-12s, which were still there at the time of the attack along with the P-26s and B-12s (the book East Wind, Rain shows a damaged P-26 in a hangar).

[Pat Carry]

Those are oh so nice, thanks Mark

[CoastieJohn]

Good stuff Mark. Looking forward to the rest of the pics. Just for grins....you don't happen to have some Duck pics from the Dec 7th timeframe do you? I'm wondering if we maybe able to recognize one as Chuck Greenhill's J2F-4. I've never seen a Pearl Harbor pic of it.

[Mark Allen M]

Here's the albums these photos came from and as Lynn stated they are on ebay waiting for the highest bidder. These albums belonged to a fellow who was stationed in Hawaii from 1939 thru 1941.



















































Like I said I'll wait until Dec. 7th to post more but here's one for now.

[The Inspector]

B 307 NX 19901 1st. airframe delivered to PAN AM but bailed back as a test vehicle and spun in fatally in this configuration (2 engines feathered on right side) near Alder, WA. 3/18/39 when it ran out of rudder authority. Test configuration was asked for by the KLM factory rep who died in the crash along with the test flight crew.

[Mark Allen M]

Here you go.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-WW2-PHOTO- ... 43c1fa7376

[Mark Allen M]

I've made an effort to contact the guy to see about acquiring the albums. I agree they should stay intact. See what happens.


50th Reconnaissance Squadron 11th Bomb Group, Hickam Field November 1941


Wheeler Field personel




P-26 B-18 Hickam Field 1940


Bellows Field on Oahu 1941 a taxiing O-47 of the 86th Observation Squadron plus a number of P-40's


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941


1941 Hawaiian Air Force 4th Recon 5th Bomb Group B-18 Bombers


Observation tower and hanger at Hickam Field Nov 1941


1941 October photo P40 from Hickam Field out over the Kaiwi channel

[Chris Brame]

I fixed up the next-to-last one a bit:

[Mark Allen M]

Just noticed something about the Boeing Stratoliner photo. Looks to be that both right side outboard and inboard engines are feathered? Certainly would explain the strong left rudder being used.

[The Inspector]

Obviously you skipped over my posting about the incident under the second post of photos-why do I even try?

[Mark Allen M]

I'm sorry, were you guys saying something?